Secretaría de Educación Pública

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The Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretariat of Public Education) of Mexico is the governmental department which is imparted the following functions by Article 38 of the Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal:

[edit] Functions

  • The organization, management, and development of public, incorporated, or officially recognized schools.
  • The organization and development of artistic education which is given in all public, incorporated, or officially recognized schools and institutions for the teaching and diffusion of the fine arts and of the popular arts.
  • The creation and maintenance of public schools in the Distrito Federal, excluding those which are dependents of other dependencies.
  • The creation and maintainenance, in its case, of schools of all types which function in the Republic, dependents of the Federation, excepting those which are by law entrusted to other dependencies of the Federal Government.
  • To make sure that all requirements related to preschool, primary, secondary, technical and normal education as established by the Constitution are observed and completed, and to prescribe the norms to which the incorporation of particular schools in the national educational system should adjust.
  • To excersize the supervision and vigilance that proceeds in the seminaries that impart education in the Republic, conform to that which is prescribed in the 3rd article of the constitution.
  • To systematically organize, administer and enrich the general or specialized libraries that are sustainted by the Secretariat or that form part of its dependencies.
  • To promote the creation of insitututes of scientific and technical research and the establishment of laboratories, observatories, planetariums and also centers that are required for the development of primary, secondary, noral, technical and superior education; to orient, in coordination with the appropriate dependencies of the Federal Government and with the public and private entities, the development of scientific and technological research.
  • To confer scholarships so that students of Mexican nationality can do research or complete foreign study programs.
  • To revalidate studies and titles, and to conceed authorization for the excersize of the capacities that they accredit.
  • To formulate the catalog of national historic patrimony.
  • To organize, sustain, and administer historic, archaeological and artistic museums, painting galleries and art galleries, to the effect of preserving the integrity, the maintenance and conservation of historic and artistic treasures of the cultural patrimony of the country.
  • To conserve, protect and maintain archeological, historical, and artistic monuments that conform the cultural patrimony of the nation, attending the legal dispositions in the matter.
  • To orient the artistic, cultural, recreational and sport-related activities that are realized by the federal public sector.

Among others.

[edit] List of Secretaries of Public Education of Mexico

Reyes S. Taméz Guerra, 2000-2006
Reyes S. Taméz Guerra, 2000-2006
Ernesto Zedillo, 1992-1993
Ernesto Zedillo, 1992-1993
Manuel Bartlett, 1988-1992
Manuel Bartlett, 1988-1992
José Vasconcelos Calderón, 1921-1924
José Vasconcelos Calderón, 1921-1924
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, 1976-1977
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, 1976-1977

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